Data protection

 1. Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the person responsible
 2. Data collection when you visit our website
 3. Cookies
 4. Data processing for order processing
 5. Data processing when opening a customer account and for contract processing
 6. Contact
 7. Use of your data for direct mail
 8. Use of social media: social plugins
 9. Retargeting / Remarketing / Referral Advertising
 10. Rights of the data subject
 11. Duration of storage of personal data

1. Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the person responsible

1.1. Thank you for visiting our website. In the following we would like to inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data are basically all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2. The person responsible for processing data on our website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

LJ Couture GmbH / Liz Albeck & Joy Albeck
goethepark 18
10627 Berlin
Germany
Tel.:01723168231
Email: albeckliz@gmail.com

1.3. In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL or TSL) via HTTPS.

2. Data collection when you visit our website

Every time you visit our website, our system automatically records data and information that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). The following data that is technically necessary for us is collected:
  • Our visited website
  • Date and time at the time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source / reference from which you came to the page
  • Operating system used
  • Browser used
  • IP address used (if applicable: in anonymous form
The legal basis for processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR due to our legitimate interest in improving the stability and maintaining the functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable the website to be delivered to the user's computer. To do this, the user's IP address must be saved for the duration of the session.
We reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended. 
If the data is stored in log files, this is the case after seven days at the latest. Any further storage is possible. In this case, the users' IP addresses are deleted or alienated so that they can no longer be assigned to the calling client. The collection of the data for the provision of the website and the storage of the data in log files is essential for the operation of the website. There is consequently no possibility of objection on the part of the user. 

3. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. 

Cookies are text files that are stored on the user's device. When a user calls up a website, a cookie can be stored on the user's operating system. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For this, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after changing pages. The user data collected by technically necessary cookies are not used to create user profiles. In the above Our legitimate interest lies in the processing of personal data in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

In addition, our website uses cookies that enable an analysis of the surfing behavior of the user (so-called third party cookies). You can find more information on the scope, purpose, legal basis and possibilities of objection in the respective sections of the respective chapter of this data protection declaration.

As a user, you have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate, restrict or delete the transmission of cookies by changing the settings in your Internet browser. If you deactivate cookies for our website, it is possible that not all functions of the website can be used in full. You can prevent the transmission of Flash cookies by changing the settings of the Flash Player.

You can find help on the settings in the respective help menu of your browser under the following links:
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
Some of the cookies used here are deleted after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies (third party cookies) to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values on an individual basis. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which can differ depending on the cookie.


4. Data processing for order processing

4.1. If you want to order in our webshop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we need to process your order. We process the data you provide to process your order. 

Sometimes we work with external service providers to process your order. For this we have to pass on the personal data required for this.

If we commission transport companies to deliver your goods, we will pass on your data required for the delivery of the goods to the respective transport company. For the processing of the payments, we will pass on your data to the commissioned credit institution as necessary. If we use payment service providers, you will also be informed about this below. 
The legal basis for forwarding your data is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

4.2. Passing on your personal data to shipping service providers

- DPD

If the goods are delivered to you by the transport service provider DPD (DPD Deutschland GmbH, Wailandtstraße 1, 63741 Aschaffenburg), we will give you for the purpose of delivery and within the scope of the necessity in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO only forwards the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DPD. Only if you have given your express consent during the ordering process will we give your email address in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR before the delivery of the goods for the purpose of agreeing a delivery date or to announce the delivery to DPD. Your consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future vis-à-vis the person responsible or the transport service provider DPD.

4.3. Use of payment service providers

- Paypal
If you choose the payment method PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" or "installment payment" via PayPal, the payment is processed by PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as "PayPal").
We pass on your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR to PayPal as necessary. PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" or "installment payment" via PayPal.
For this purpose, your payment data may be processed in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR passed on to credit agencies due to PayPal's legitimate interest in determining your solvency. PayPal uses the result of the credit check with regard to the statistical probability of default for the purpose of deciding whether to provide the respective payment method.
The credit report can contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. The calculation of the score values includes, but is not limited to, address data.
Which other data is collected by PayPal results from the respective data protection declaration from PayPal. This can be found at: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, PayPal may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for the contractual payment processing.

- Shopify Payments
We use the payment service provider "Shopify Payments", 3rd Floor, Europa House, Harcourt Building, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. If you choose a payment method offered by the payment service provider Shopify Payments, the payment will be processed by the technical service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. , 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland, to whom we will receive the information you provided during the ordering process, along with information about your order (name, address, account number, bank code, possibly credit card number, invoice amount, currency and transaction number) according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will only be passed on for the purpose of processing payments with Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. and only insofar as it is necessary for this. You can find more information on data protection at Shopify Payments at the following Internet address: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
Data protection information on Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. can be found here: https://stripe.com/de/privacy

4.4.  Apple Pay
If you select the "Apple Pay" payment method (a service provided by Apple Distribution International (Apple), Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland), the payment is processed via the "Apple Pay" function of your iOS, watchOS or macOS operated Terminal by debiting a payment card you have stored with "Apple Pay".

 Your transaction is protected by the security functions of your device's hardware and software. If a payment is to be approved, it must be approved by entering a code and verification using the "Face ID" or "Touch ID" function of your device. 

The information you provide during the ordering process, along with information about your order, will be passed on to Apple in encrypted form for the purpose of payment processing. This data is then re-encrypted by Apple and then transmitted to the payment service provider of the payment card stored in Apple Pay to carry out the payment. The encryption ensures that only the website on which the order was placed can access the payment data.

 After payment, Apple sends the device account number and a transaction-specific, dynamic security code to the shop website to confirm the payment.
 Personal data can be processed with the curtains mentioned. In this case, this is done for the purpose of payment processing in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

 When using Apple Pay on the iPhone or the Apple Watch to complete a purchase that was made via Safari on the Mac, the Mac and the authorization device communicate via an encrypted channel on the Apple servers. Apple can process or save data. However, this is done in a format that cannot be used to identify you personally.

Information on data protection from Apple Pay is available here: https://support.apple.com/de-de/HT203027

5. Data processing when opening a customer account and for contract processing

If you open a customer account with us, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DGSVO collected and processed personal data. The scope of the data can be seen from the input form. The data you enter will be saved and used by us to process the contract. 
You can delete your customer account at any time. This can be done by sending a message to the address of the person responsible or, if offered, directly in the customer account. In this case, we will also block your data taking into account tax and commercial retention periods and delete them after these periods have expired. This can only be contradicted by your consent to permanent storage or a legally permitted further use of data on our part.

6. Contact

If you contact us using the contact form, the data entered in the input mask will be transmitted to us and saved. The data collected can be found in the respective input mask. When you contact us by email, only the data you have entered will be transmitted to us.
The data will only be used to process the conversation and your request. The legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. The legal basis for the processing of the data that is transmitted in the course of sending an email is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. If the aim of the email contact is to conclude a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected and provided that there are no statutory retention requirements. For the personal data from the input mask of the contact form and those sent by email, this is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation is ended when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been finally clarified. The user has the option at any time to revoke their consent to the processing of personal data. If the user contacts us by email, they can object to the storage of their personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued.

7. Use of your data for direct mail

Newsletter

You can subscribe to a free newsletter on our website. When registering for the newsletter, the data from the input mask is transmitted to us. The only mandatory information is your email address. If you make further voluntary entries, these will only be used to address you personally.

The legal basis for processing your data after registering for the newsletter is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. We collect this by sending you a confirmation email after registering for the newsletter, which contains a confirmation link. If you click on this link, you are also giving your consent to receive the newsletter.
When you send the registration for the newsletter, we save your IP address and the date and time of registration. This storage serves to be able to trace a possible misuse of your email address. 

We use the data collected by us when registering for the newsletter exclusively for the purpose of sending the newsletter. 

You can cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time. There is a corresponding link in every newsletter for this purpose. This also enables you to revoke your consent to the storage of the personal data collected during the registration process. 

8. Use of social media: social plugins

Instagram plug-in as a Shariff solution

We use social plugins ("plugins") from the online service Instagram (Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA) (hereinafter referred to as "Instagram") on our website.

In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, the buttons of the plugins with the so-called Shariff solution are only integrated into the page using an HTML link. This ensures that when you visit our website with an Instagram button, a connection to the Instagram servers is only established when you click on the button and interact with the plug-in that then opens in a new browser window. You may also have to log in separately.

Further details can be found in Instagram's data protection information: 
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/

9. Retargeting / Remarketing / Referral Advertising

Facebook Custom Audience using the pixel process

On this website we use the "Facebook pixel" from Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Facebook"). If you have given your express consent, this can be used to track the behavior of users after this have seen or clicked on a Facebook ad. This procedure is used to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and can help to optimize future advertising measures. The data collected is anonymous to us, so we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the user. However, data is stored and processed by Facebook so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook data usage guidelines (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).

 You can enable Facebook and its partners to place advertisements on and outside of Facebook. A cookie can be stored on your device for this purpose. These processing operations are only carried out when express consent is given in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Consent to the use of the Facebook pixel may only be given by users who are older than 13 years. If you are younger, please ask your legal guardian for permission. You can deactivate the use of cookies on your computer by setting your browser accordingly. However, this can mean that some functions on our website can no longer be used in full. You can opt out of the use of cookies by third parties such as Deactivate Facebook on the following website of the Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

10. Rights of the data subject

10.1. The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights of data subjects (information and intervention rights) to the person responsible with regard to the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:

- Right to information according to Art. 15 GDPR:
You can request confirmation from the person responsible as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed by the person responsible. In addition, you have the right to information about the purpose, the categories of personal data, the recipients, the planned duration of storage and the existence of other rights such as correction of the data or the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data, if these were not collected by us, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if necessary, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and the intended effects of such processing, as well as your right to be informed about the guarantees according to Art. 46 GDPR Forwarding of your data to third countries exist;

- Right to correction in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR:
You have the right to the immediate correction of incorrect data concerning you and / or the completion of your incomplete data stored by us; the correction or completion must take place immediately.

- Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR:
You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted as long as the correctness of your data, which you disputed, is checked, if you refuse to delete your data due to inadmissible data processing and instead request that the processing of your data be restricted if you use your data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims after we no longer need this data after the purpose has been achieved or if you have lodged an objection for reasons of your particular situation, as long as it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate reasons prevail;
If the processing of your personal data has been restricted, this data - apart from its storage - may only be used with your consent or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest processed by the Union or a Member State. If the processing restriction has been restricted, you will be informed by the person responsible before the restriction is lifted.

- Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR:
You have the right to have your personal data deleted immediately if the requirements of Art. 17 Paragraph 1 GDPR are met. However, this right to deletion does not exist in particular - not exclusively - if the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims

- Right to information in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR:
If you have exercised your right to correction, deletion or restriction of processing, the person responsible is obliged to notify all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed of this correction or deletion of the data or restriction of processing, if this is not impossible or with a disproportionate effect Effort is involved. You also have the right to be informed about these recipients.

- Right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR:
You have the right to receive your personal data communicated to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another person responsible, as far as this is technically possible;

- Right of revocation according to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR:
You have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data that is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. e) or f) GDPR takes place, to object; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
You also have the right to revoke your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time with effect for the future. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent up to the point of withdrawal.

- Right to complain in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR:
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged violation, if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data is against violates the GDPR.

10.2. Right to object

You have the right to object to the processing of your data at any time with effect for the future if we process your data after weighing up your interests due to our overriding legitimate interest.
If you make use of this right of objection, we will end the processing of your data if there is no evidence of overriding compelling reasons worthy of protection that prevent the termination or if the further processing serves to exercise or defend legal claims.

11. Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data depends on the statutory retention periods. After this period has expired, we routinely delete the data if they are no longer required to fulfill or initiate a contract and / or if we have no legitimate interest in further storage.